I don’t understand how a better graphic car can make games smoother, or just how they work in general
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A computer, as we know it. Is best described as a “general purpose” computer. It can do A LOT of different things, but none of them super well. It’s more of a versatile machine than it is a dedicated peace of equipment.
When you start to look at very specialized use cases we can make a better computer that only does this one thing really well than we can if we task our general use computer to this special task.
If you want a computer to do nothing but calculate a large biology simulation, the kind that might take days or months to run to completion. Then the best way to get that done is with special hardware that’s custom built to do just that one thing really, really well. Then you might be able to do it in days or weeks instead of months.
That’s basically what a GPU is. It’s an entire computer by itself (it has it’s own processors, and it’s own memory). But it’s not a general use computer, it’s a computer that ONLY does calculations relating to 3d graphics and displaying them on the computer screen. It’s custom built do to only this one thing, but do it really well.
If you could somehow ask a GPU to do something like handle your networking traffic, it would be really bad at it because that’s not what it’s designed to do. On the other hand, your normal computer can handle network traffic no problem.
But you could go out and buy a special computer that JUST does network traffic and does it really well, better than your general use computer can. Those computers are mostly sold by networking equipment manufacturers.
A GPU makes a game smoother because it’s much better at calculating all of the graphics things that need to get done. So it can do 60 frames worth of those calculations every second where’s if your general use computer was doing that it might only be able to do 20 frames of calculations per second.
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